We should be focused on how to make people’s lives better. That is the purpose of technology. Martin Cooper Read Quote
Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were. Martin Cooper Read Quote
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. Martin Cooper Read Quote
A telephone number shouldn’t represent a home or a car or a restaurant, but instead a person. Martin Cooper Read Quote
We had no idea that things like Facebook and Twitter, and all these other concepts, would ever happen. Martin Cooper Read Quote
I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver. Martin Cooper Read Quote
The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, ‘Is it going to work?’ We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron – just in case. Martin Cooper Read Quote
Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can’t wait five minutes before staring at your phone? Martin Cooper Read Quote
